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MYSTERY 



OR 



THE LADY OF THE CASINO 



BY 



DAVID F. TAYLOR 



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BOSTON 

THE GORHAM PRESS 
1916 



Copyright, 1916, by David F. Taylor 



All Rights Reserved 



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SEP 18 1916 



The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A. 



' CI, A4 38405 



TO 

THE LOVERS OF FREEDOM AND PEACE 

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, FOR 

YOUR SYMPATHY AND APPROVAL 

BY 

D. F. TAYLOR 

"poet of the chaparral" 



MYSTERY, OR THE LADY 
OFfTHE CASINO 



CANTO I 

Eternal love is not a dull symposer, 
It is a feast that in the soul is wrought, 
It is divine, how can it be a loser, 
Living supremely in sweet silent thought; 
It laughs to scorn the laws of petrifaction. 
And ever will with failing time prevail. 
The sentient gives but little satisfaction, 
But this eternal thing will never fail ; 
I wonder if the eyes that measure time 
Are looking on while I indite this rhyme. 



The dewdrops on the rose appear newborn 
At early dawn, although they fade away. 
They are ambassadors to greet the morn 
That speak of love, and live in memory ; 
And so I write of love — a maiden fair, 
A handsome youth, intelligent and wise 
She had the caste and the patrician air 
And he had ways that won the maiden's eyes 
So well they met, so well they stood together 
Like golden links you would not wish to sever. 



Mystery 



I saw them first at Santa Cruz; they walked 

Upon the pier fronting the Casino 

They were quite ardent, earnestly they talked, 

Moving in measured pace, stately and slow. 

And as they passed the crowd would look around 

She was so beautiful, and he forsooth 

So noble looking you hardly could have found 

A finer specimen of noble youth. 

I stood upon the pier, and looked that way 

The evening shadows marked the closing day. 



I watched them as they slowly walked away 

I saw the sun sink in the sea 

And something spoke so touchingly 

Although they nothing were to me 

And as I mused I saw a face 

From out the semi-darkness come 

A face that was devoid of grace 

A demon face this is the sum 

A man walked past; and if the devil drew 

His likeness, then that picture was in view. 



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I marked his form ; the shoulders broad 

The thick-set neck, the limbs so strong 

The jerky pace, the steps so odd 

(His side-view showed a nose quite long) 

The marked projection of the chin 

The heavy jaw, the sensual mouth 

The piercing eyes, so filled with sin; 

He stepped quite brisk, and went down south 

I watched, but soon his form was lost to sight 

And vanished in the shadows of the night. 



That night I had a strange wild dream 
A vision filled with phantasy 
I sat beside a Lethean stream 
It was the morning, and the gray 
And mystic day began to break. 
From out the entrails of a cloud 
A form appeared that did betake 
Angelic habitude, while others stood 
Watching that form with marked intensity 
I saw their eyes filled with malignancy. 



Mystery 



And when I woke, the early morn 

Looked lovingly upon the bay, 

How glad I was to find the storm 

Of love and hate had past away. 

I watched the sunlight's gentle play, 

As in the distance brightly gleaming, 

Lighting the hills of Monterey 

Like love's caresses golden teaming 

The day in splendor wore a summer dress 

Giving to Santa Cruz a fond caress. 



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CANTO II 

I left the mountain where I marked the flower 

Shedding its odor by the winding brook, 

I left the brush-land and the redwood bower 

But ere I left I took another look 

Of flowers and ferns and hazel bushes growing, 

Of mossy banks where tiger lilies bide, 

Of rock and dell and limpid waters flowing, 

And bunnies that beneath the bunch-grass hide, 

I dropped a tear and kis't my nut-brown hand 

For love and nature sympathizing stand. 



I stepped aboard the cars and fondly waved 

A last adios to the nestling inn 

Crossing the bridge where flowing waters lave 

A toneing song to soothe the ear's loud din. 

And on we went with serpentinian grace 

Now entering where monster redwoods sever 

The clouds above — then through a dangerous place 

Where rock, and stream and trees blended together, 

At last the sacred city came in view 

And way beyond the ocean vast and blue. 



Mystery 



I love the surging sea, and love bestows 
Fond tho'ts that lead me into the sublime 
The waste of waters with my memory grows 
And does not lessen with the waste of time 
My father took me o'er the Northern Sea 
Full well I knew the wild St. Andrews Bay 
The reckless waves make music unto me 
And the rude notes stay with me to this day ; 
And when I see the bay of Santa Cruz 
No item of the welkin form I lose. 



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Among the fishermen upon the pier 

One afternoon I whiled away my time, 

Watching the boats come in and disappear 

As they went out to meet the hyaline — 

While waiting there a pleasure party came, 

And landed at the wharf; my eyes did greet 

"The lady of the Casino," for thus her name 

Was known by those we call elite. 

And by her side Adonis like was placed 

The same young man our eyes before embraced. 



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An auto was at hand and they and other two 
Went off: "So they have friends," I said 
And tried to think no more but still they grew, 
And longing to know more I turned my head 
And there before my eyes with face averted 
Was that dread man gazing with ire 
At the flying auto as if converted 
Into a watching sphinx, with eyes of fire. 
Beholding all, I could not stop my musing 
This beauty, love and hate sadly confusing. 



"Thou demon of the pier," I almost said 

What caused thee now to come and go between 

Hateful and rank and virulent — I dread 

You spoil the very substance of my dream 

If I can watch I may prevent 

At least find the manner of your measure 

And like a blood-hound catch onto the scent 

If it costs days and nights, and needs some treasure. 

I watched him to the city-front and soon 

His bulky form entered a saloon. 



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Mystery 



The sun had sunk beneath the sea 

Leaving the burning clouds behind 

His cast-off fire is nought to me 

Compared with that within my mind 

This much I saw, thus much I see, 

Tale of the twofold course of life, 

The kind and beautiful to be 

The direst form of direst strife; 

And as I mused, the ocean murmured low 

"I am the emblem of life's ebb and flow." 



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CANTO III 

It is the evening hour, and fresh ozone 
Is wafted on the gentle breeze that springs 
From mountain side; I hear that buzzing tone, 
A humming-bird is near, with active wings 
From honeysuckle to the eglantine 
He moves, and simply does it at the word 
Conceived by instinct, answering every time ; 
Great is the mind that formed the little bird. 
I wish to drink fresh water from that fountain 
So I will go and visit Hermon Mountain. 



The song was sung, the prayer was made 

And all the ways of grace were found, 

Devotion had its every aid. 

And benediction walked the ground; 

The leader sang a solo, and the choir 

Took up the burden with an ardent vim 

It seemed to fill the tent with sacred fire 

A little bird upon a madrone limb 

Was listening — I wondered if its little mind 

Took in some meaning that was fond and kind. 



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Mystery 



Love in a bird is love tho' undefined 

And has some motive in the God of grace 

Warbling evangel where one may find, 

Precept and homily and that fond place, 

Where it would seem the spirit waftingly 

Can fill the soul with peace, not homily 

Alone can reach, but that which graftingly. 

Makes us alive to Him who made our day. 

A little bird sitting upon a limb 

May reach the heart, and bring us near to Him. 



Among the choir fond love was measured in; 
A lovely lady with her golden hair, 
(For human is the object when we bring 
Those graces that make summer in the air). 
The first born flowers of April are of gold 
I mean the crocus peering through the snow 
And though imperfect is the form and mode 
They typify this Lady of the Casino, 
She sat there like a Scandinavian bride 
I did not see her lover by her side. 



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But looking to the right I saw him placed 
Beside a lady who I thought might be 
The sister of the one we have ju§t traced 
She had a portion of her imagery 
Her face was not so perfect and her hair 
Was what an artist calls a marigold, 
So I concluded Danish blood was there 
With a complexion that will not grow old ; 
The noble youth, if we his place assert 
Might be put down as young King Athelbert. 



'Tis good to be acquainted when you see 

An object that may better those who go, 

Along the pathway in whose imagery 

There is a quality of right bestow; 

And so an introduction much I sought 

And, truth to tell, I introduced myself 

It seemed quite natural this way to float 

For at a meeting there is no stiff spell, 

I spoke unto them both and others too 

And from that time a marked acquaintance grew. 



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Mystery 



The heart is fond and may recount this line, 
When I, who wrote, and they for whose fond love 
I place my garland that it may entwine 
Their memory — leave for the land above. 
How much does perfect beauty beauteous seem 
When it has truth to guide it on its way 
If we have nothing but our self-esteem 
And deem the world is but a holiday 
We lose that prize of endless heavenly treasure 
We lose that grace the soul alone can measure. 



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I stood upon the steps and saw them leave. 
The lady gave her hand. Adonis said 
Some pleasant words — "it would him grieve 
"If friendship thus begun should go to bed 
"And fall asleep." He spoke to me with face 
Honest and true, where I could find 
His home near Santa Cruz, a little place — 
A cottage with a Woodbine front entwined, 
Adding these words, "We live like birds together 
Within a nest to hide us from the weather." 



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That evening in the cool and pleasant shade 
Among the Sequoia trees I lingered, 
Listening to sounds the sounding forest made, 
For pensively my mind and riature mingled. 
It seemed as if the trees, birds, flowers and all 
Were listening to a pleasant evening hymn 
And in its measured gentle rise and fall 
The soul was speaking to a cherubim, 
When all at once a figure to me neared 
I started up — the devil had appeared. 



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He passed by quickly, glared like one posses't 
And not a word he uttered as he went. 
With dreadful terror was my mind impres't 
Having no knowledge what was his intent. 
The Lethean river can not be defined 
It is a stream that evermore is cursed 
Its waters tantalize nitrate combined 
Preforms its slackless raging demon-thirst; 
It therefore took the prayer I silent made 
To speed along and leave the forest shade. 



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Mystery 



II 



When evil comes along our joys may fade 
But not the purpose kindled by love's flame, 
Before the God of Peace my mind was laid, 
And presently a gracious answer came. 
I sat me down and wrote an ardent letter 
Describing all the scenes that I had seen, 
The demon man — I could not deem him better- 
And how so often he had come between. 
Told all I knew and how I deemed it right 
To tell of it, when danger was in sight. 



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CANTO IV 

The speckled dove has come from Arazome 

The days are warm and through the night 

The dew falls silently. Love and a home, 

Livens the sanguine birds. The morning bright 

Brings me a letter which now I ope, 

'Tis from the woodbine cottage by the sea; 

It is a goodly note and it brings hope ; 

'Tis couched in gracious words ; the imagery 

Has something mystic that I can not cope 

Like leaves upon a stream you try to grope. 



This noble youth, this lady filled with grace 
Had come from Alsace near the Rhine. 
The demon man, with his repelling face. 
Had been a German soldier in his time. 
He took a fancy to our lady's mother 
But was refused; another wedded her; 
This other was the demon soldier's brother, 
And since that time it did his wrath incur 
But why he followed them they could not tell. 
They had no part in what before befell. 



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Mystery 



Again I left the woodland shade 

And visited the ocean shore 

I found the cottage love had made 

Covered with woodbine o'er and o'er. 

The charming lady of Casino grace 

Gave me her hand and took my hat, 

I surely found a resting place 

And pleasantly began to chat. 

It is a pleasant thing when thus you roam 

To find Platonic friendship in a home. 



And in this happy social mood 
King Athelbertus op'ed the door. 
There like a prince of blood he stood. 
I did not eye him o'er and o'er 
But like as I had been his friend 
I rose and took his manly hand 
And presently our talk did wend 
Its way where genial thoughts commend 
A real measure in that untaught way 
That makes true life a pleasant homily. 



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They sang the songs I love to hear — 
The Rhineish songs the Ritters bore. 
Sometime their passion brought a tear, 
Their swinging measure struck the core. 
Then followed many a mighty phrase 
Of Mozart with his liquid measure 
And Handel with his song of praise 
Op'ed up a sacred treasure; 
The lady moon was shining on the bay 
And still I drank in music's phantasy. 



And there were measures of the sweet Mignon 

And blending of heroic Aleaste 

And Lohengrin came powerful and strong — 

Love, hate and tyranny in stern array. 

The night wore on, it was replete 

Anon with dark abysmal time 

And then like roses in a bower sweet 

Their odor mellowing the thoughts of crime — 

It was like winter when the stormclouds lower 

Then fresh and fair like April's first-born flower. 



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Mystery 



'Twas late, the moon resignedly 

Beneath the sea had hid her face 

As if she said consignedly, 

"The stars will occupy my place." 

They sang a song that brought them near 

To sunny scenes of Fatherland, 

And in its burden dropped a tear 

Holding each other by the hand. 

Then each one smiled so courteous and bright 

Entreating me to linger over night. 



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CANTO V 

The summer birds have left the hill 
Where chicken weed and peavines grow 
In patches by the fructive rill 
Or on the chaparral plateau 
Their instinct and the future need 
Find a refuge from the weather — 
A warmer climate there to feed 
And keep their families together — 
And so they flit and find another home 
Among the welkin wilds of Arizome; 



The fructive autumn days are past 

And from the south black clouds appear ; 

The winter speaks out with a blast : 

"I wish to tell you I am here." 

I sit alone within my home 

The fire is burning cheerily 

The sun's gone down, I hear a moan 

Among the trees so wearily. 

I watch the blazing fire, its rise and fall 

Making those changing shadows on the wall. 



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JMysterv 



O, listen to the wind and rain 

Beating against my cottage wall, 

Bespattering the window-pane 

And singing 'midst the pine trees tall; 

I wonder if the shepherd boy 

Has taken care of all his sheep 

Or if the man they do employ 

To house the stock has gone asleep, 

Or if the people in the woodbine cot 

Are thinking thoughts that mean "forget me not." 



That night the wind blew strong and fierce 

As on my couch I listened to 

The beating rain, that seemed to pierce 

The boards and shingles through and through ; 

The rain came tumbling down the hill 

And in the creek the sand and drift 

Was moving onward with a will 

While sticks of timber got a lift; 

Lorenzo river soon will have a rising 

If this continues that will be surprising. 



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Next morn the storm king did not cease 

Throughout the day it kept on raining 

A famous time for ducks and geese 

Or aqua men that needed training. 

I stood beside the bridge that day 

Watching Lorenzo booming big 

I saw the driftwood borne away 

Old roofs and hencoops and a pig 

That had been boarding near the stream 

With too much water with its board I ween. 



Tempestuous storms have their time 

And sunshine follows in their wake, 

The changing nature is sublime 

Subdued and fashioned for man's sake; 

I walked abroad to view the land 

Old Phoebus shining on the hill 

I felt the comfort of his hand 

And listened to Ahithophel, 

For e'en the blue-jays made a gladsome call 

Mingling with blackbirds, robins, quail and all. 



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Mystery 



The little globule on the leaf 

Spoke to the sunbeam in its eye 

"My term of life is spare and brief 

But love and light will never die;" 

And the brown leaflets drifting by 

Like waifs upon the yellow lift 

Seemed with the stream to heave a sigh, 

Commingling with the passing drift 

I mused upon the homily of time 

And lingered with my thoughts that were sublime. 



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CANTO VI 

I love to see the mist at break of day 

And powerful Phoebus coming with a gift 

Of glory in his face, drive it away 

His flaming chariot riding o'er the lift — 

While the young morning sings a pulsing song 

Of joy with prestanola touch, 

The scene is masterly sublime and strong 

And graced with beauty of an arder such 

As hands divine can handle and control, 

Awakening the music of the soul. 



The scenes around Lorenzo have the air 

Of fairyland, the spreading maple trees 

That rise upon the sloping bank so fair 

And the green bay that perfumes every breeze 

The graceful birch, the willows growing rank 

The river formed in nature's wanton chasing 

The Sequoia rising on the nether bank 

The jutting point with tiger lilies gracing 

The flowing stream. The rushing storms are past, 

And fishermen begin to make their cast. 



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Time has its turn and nature great and vast 
Revivifies. I'll visit where the ocean laved 
Its melody. I linger with the past, 
And wonder how the stormy king behaved 
With those I love ; the little cottage bright 
With incident within my soul revives 
And I am anxious more to see the light 
Shine in the Lady of Casino's eyes, 
And see again the cottage by the sea 
With woodbine covering and music's melody. 



I longed to see the ones I love 
With blest compulsion in my heart 
Wishing the pinions of a dove 
Would give me a prophetic start ; 
But lacking pinions large enough 
I simply used my horse and cart 
And took the road, though rather rough 
Avoiding stones with all my art, 
And after making quite a muddy drive 
This child beside the cottage did arrive. 



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I looked around; the blinds were down 
The storm had reached the cottage door 
The woodbine looked so sere and brown 
And naught seemed as it was before. 
I rang the bell without response 
It was a lone, deserted place 
My footsteps made the only sound 
And no one's presence could I trace 
Nor find what to me had been so sweet 
The Lady of Casino and her cheering greet. 



And wond'ring thus with sinking heart, 

A man's voice called and did me hail, 

I turned about with sudden start 

And listened to an untold tale 

He said that some great mystery 

Had happened on the old cliff drive 

And how to find its history 

The officers of law did strive, 

We got aboard my cart and drove along 

My brain was burning, but my heart was strong 



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We drove along that old cliff drive 

We reached the arch made by the sea 

And there a lonelj' auto stood 

Deserted by its company 

And by this auto on the ground 

Was found the footprints of a man 

And searching round they also found 

A lady's necktie and a fan; 

A crowd had gathered by this time 

For crowds love mystery and crime. 



About that auto, where it stood, 

And the lone cottage by the sea 

There was collected livelihood 

Drawn thither by this mystery; 

The sheriff in his legal way 

Removed the auto from the cliff 

He held a conference that day 

Proposing questions rather stiff; 

And last some good detectives made their stand 

And took the strange set mystery in hand. 



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The sea, the beach, the sounding waves, 
Are consciousless of what we feel 
They sing a requiem o'er the grave 
When they our precious treasure steal, 
They sing for joy, they know it not. 
They cry for victims every day. 
Whether the victim does a crime 
Or is out on a holiday. 
Or in despair commingles with the wave, 
Seeking repose where angry waters lave. 



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I tried to sleep, and through the night 

A vision came before my soul 

It was not dark, it was not bright 

But strangely marked with parabole 

I saw the fair Casinian Queen, 

The demon man I sure did see, 

I saw her face with lustrous sheen ; 

The demon man seemed strange to me 

I thought I saw his form encased in foam. 

And in his hair sea-urchins made their home. 



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CANTO VII 



Next night I stood upon the cliff 

Watching the moon and one lone star 

It did appear to me as if 

Within my soul there was debar 

Of reason — will and motive slain 

They had no force because my mind 

Could not the Alchyminian gain ; 

Clouds and eclipses can not be defined; 

What made the pious moon with borrowed light 

Kiss with her golden lips the sea so bright? 



While looking on my mind would burn 

And then take on a milder cast 

Assuming the prophetic turn 

That grasps the earth and ocean vast ; 

Whether it was a vivid dream 

Or trance that lifted me away 

I do not know, nor do I deem 

It good to know it normally, 

But this I know I left what did appear 

This earth and was conversant in another sphere. 



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Time laughs at us, poor wanton time 
That brings our penalty in view 
It may kill beauty in my rhyme, 
But grace is ever fresh and new, 
It places one within the sphere, 
That gives to life its comely face 
Bringing celestial pictures near 
So bright is this celestial grace — 
What's beauty, grace, or energy or wit, 
Unless we have the soul to live with it. 



A voice that sounded like a flood 
Of waters breaking far away 
Came near to me and o'er me stood 
And then I heard a clear relay 
Of trumpets and a voice spoke out 
"Come to the feast, ye birds of prey 
"Touch not the meek or the devout 
"But eat up those that mar the way." 
A host of angels made reply 
To Him who had the allseeing eye. 



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"Mention the name," the foremost said. 
"What name?" I said — my heart was still. 
"The name of Him who raised the dead 
"And ruleth when and where He will" 
(I said the name, then all was changed.) 
'Twas not the sun that brought that gleam 
That in and out my being came 
With its deep joy it did not seem, 
Of earth but was a heavenly flame. 
Earth has its joy, that time may wed away, 
But this is joy that links eternity. 



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Then Came the Summons: 

"Stand forth, strong angel, with man's fate 

"Sound on the earth the fatal call 

"The flesh of captains must be ate 

"Stand in the sun and on the wall 

"Let buzzards sit, they have their store." 

Remorseless is the tiger's jaw 

The fatal savage waj's of yore, 

That kings are wont to call God's law — 

This is the penalty. When done release 

The blessed Jordan dove of peace. 

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CANTO VIII 

Love keeps no reckoning of wasted time 

E'en tho' vile hate contaminates its way 

And yet I hold that all abortive crime, 

Can not prevent its all efficient sway 

So time went on some two weeks from the day 

The mystery took place upon the cliff 

The ocean opened up its progeny 

The demon man was found both stark and stiflE 

His swollen out body lay upon the sand 

He held a picture in his clasped hand. 



I gazed and said "O, my prophetic soul 
"The picture is the lady's sainted mother" 
I nursed the secret, kept it in control. 
The man who married her is this man's brother 
But why and wherefore he had come to this 
Was mere conjecture, why he followed up 
The Lady Casino with a serpent's hiss 
And he himself had drunk the bitter cup, 
I leave it to detectives to unwind the turns 
Men of research like the detective Burns. 



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Mystery 



They questioned me, I told them what I knew 
They wrote it down, they called on me for aid. 
As time went on, time with the mystery grew 
And kept its sway at last was laid 
The case upon the shelf as autumn's gain 
Is laid in store till rugged winter comes 
Waiting for consummation of the same 
That hidden things might come out true and plain. 
The cottage home, the cliff, the restless sea 
Were music uncompleted, that would be. 



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CANTO IX 

The spring is past, the flowers of June have come 
The fruit birds hop around on every bough 
Youth and the day comminglingly are one 
And the rich roses say, "Look at us now^." 
I have a letter from a far off friend 
A castle on the Rhine in old Lorraine 
There is music in its vi^ords for they portend 
The mystery made very clear and plain; 
On it are placed both strength and love 
A lion in protecting a white dove. 



The Lady of Casino and her friend 
The duke of Athelbert are now made one 
Like double cherries they are now one end, 
One purpose and one will. — This is the sum 
The demon man had watched them day and night 
They deemed it prudent, so they made a plot 
They could not keep far from his searching sight 
They left their auto in the very spot 
Where it was found, leaving a necktie and a fan 
That they might mystify the demon man. 



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Mystery 



He came along, saw what had been done, 
And in his frenzy leaped into the sea. 
They were quite sad to think it run 
This way; and Athelbert and she 
Left secretly, and landed in Lorraine 
And there they were united ; the news came 
Of the fell tragedy, and although not to blame 
They enjoined secrecy, because their name 
And what took place if published would create 
Sorrow on others for the poor man's sake. 



Life may be tragedy, but there is One 
Who holds the secret of the way of living 
Who guides the elements as does the sun 
W^ho pardons our misdeeds, whose heart is giving 
Life love and strength to every willing soul, 
Who turns our passions, leads us on the way 
Who gives us power to practice self-control 
Who gives us hope, and turns our night to day 
And if we place our daily life within his sway 
Demons may follow but cherubims will lead the way. 



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EPILOGUE 

Gerrnana 

Land of the beautiful and free, 
This double tale is meant for thee. 
Sweet maiden with the golden hair. 
Land of bright youth, without compare; 
The demon man who breathed thy air 
Will die with urchins in his hair. 
But as the bud springs from the tree. 
Sweet flowers of troth will come to thee. 
And He who marked the sparrow's fall 
Will give thee songs Ahithophel. 
Then shall the Rhine resound thy praise. 
Deeper than songs the Ritters raise. 
And warbling birds upon thy banks. 
Will symphonate a note of thanks. 
The wafting air ivill give a tone 
From God's life-giving rare ozone. 
And nations luith their hand and heart 
Extol thy life, thy love, thy art — 
Will live with thee, — while time's increase 
Will chase out time, for time will cease. 
As the strong angel merging sea and land 
Gives out his counsel, and extends his hand. 



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